a About the Author Dr. Theodore Kendris earned his B.A. degree in Modern Languages at Union College, Schenectady, New York, where he received the Thomas J. Judson Memorial Book Prize for modern language study. He went on to earn his M.A. degree in French Language and Literature at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, where he held a Teaching Assistantship. He earned his Ph.D. degree in French Literature at Universite Laval in Quebec City, where he studied the Middle Ages and Renaissance. While at Universite Laval, he taught French writing skills as a charge de cours in the French as a Second Language program, and he was awarded a doctoral scholarship by the Fondation de l'Universite Laval. Dr. Kendris has also taught in the Department of English and Foreign Languages at the University of St. Francis in Joliet, Illinois, as well as at the Hazleton Campus of Penn State University. He is currently an instructor in the Department of Languages and Cultures at Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania. About the Publisher In the 1930s, Manuel H. Barron opened a bookstore in Brooklyn, New York. People from the community asked Mr. Barron about books that might be available to help their children study for the New York State Regents exams. After realizing there wasn't anything available, Mr. Barron's created his own study guides. 80 years later, Barron's has helped millions of people prepare for their next step.